Construction workers in New York have staged a major demonstration on Park Avenue to protest the developer of the city's vast Hudson Yards, because the company intends to use nonunion labour for the project's next stage.
A huge crowd of unionised workers took to the street for a planned protest on Wednesday, 22 August 2018. It targeted Related Companies, which is developing Hudson Yards ? the huge development on Manhattan's West Side that includes buildings by Kohn Pedersen Fox, Foster + Partners, SOM and Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council, called for the protest after Related's plans to use open-trade or nonunion workers for the upcoming second phase were revealed.
The demonstration was described as a "personal attack" on Related's chairman Stephen Ross by Crains New York, which first reported the event.
NOW: #COUNTMEIN members are arrested and taken to waiting police bus on Park Ave - as crowds chant, ?New York City is a Union Town!? @NYCBldgTrades @local3 @CentralLaborNYC #UnionStrong pic.twitter.com/BMeQuawstS
— LaborPress (@LaborPressNY) August 22, 2018

The protest took place outside the 345 Park Ave office tower ? the headquarters of the National Football League (NFL), where Ross has recently taken a spot on the NFL's social justice committee.
Demonstrators held signs reading "Steve Ross condones union-busting" and wore green jerseys that resemble the kit of the Miami Dolphin...